Tie-plate.



R. B. DRAGOO.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913;

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UNITED STATlES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E.D1R.AGOO,OF. MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA,.ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD H.

FALLOWS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

, TIE-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Apr. 22,1913.

vision is made for preventing the same from.

creeping or moving sidewise upon the tie, such movement to be preventedby means of spurs so located and arranged upon the under side of theplate as to ofi'er a maximum resistance to the movement thereof.

A further object of my invention is to provide spurs so formed andarranged that they will readily and easily enter the tie, and with butlittle or no injury thereto.

With the above and other ends in view,

the invention consists in certain n'ovel fea-.

tures of construction as will be hereinafter fully described and pointedout in the claim. -In the accompanying drawings, Figure is a plan viewof myimproved tie plate; Fig. 2 is a view showing the under sidethereof; Fig. 3 is a view showing an end elevation thereof with aportion of a rail and securing spikes; and Fig. 4 is a view in sideelevation of my improved tie plate as seen from a position to the leftof Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawing, the reference I numeral 4 designates myimproved tie plate as a Whole, the upper surface thereof being providedwith side ridges 5, against which the outer edge of the base of the railabuts when the plate is in place, as will be under-.-

stood from Fig. 3. The tie plate is provided with holes 6, through whichfastening spikes pass into the tie beneath the plate, lugs 7 beingprovided at the outer sides .of the holes to afford support for thespikes as illustrated in Fig. 3. The under side of the late is providedwith downwardly projectmg side spurs 8, these spurs being locatedbeneath that portionof the late engaged by the side edges of the rail wen the latter is in place, to thereby strengthen the plate at the placewhere it is somewhat weakened by side edge. The spurs thereforestrengthen.

the plate at the points where it is subjected to the greatest strain,and also at the points where is weakened by the holes through whichthesecuring spikes pass.

The number of side spurs 8 employed is immaterial, and depends largelyupon the service to which the plate is to be subject ed. In thedrawings, I have illustrated three such spurs upon the outer side of therail, and two upon the inner side, although it will be understood thatthe number thereof may be increased or decreased, as desired. Thesespurs extend transversely to the rail as shown, the outer ends 9 thereofbeing made square, or at right angles to the face of the plate, in orderto thereby increase the resistance to outward movement of the plate whenthe same is ,in service.

In order to still further resist sidewise movement of the plate, Iprovide a downwardly projecting spur 10 u on the under side of the tieplate and deslgned to enter the tie. This spur is located between theside spurs 8, and preferably beneath the central web of the rail asshown in Fig. 3, so that the weight imposed thereon acts directly oversaid central spur to force it into the tie. The spur 10 is preferably ofconsiderable length, and so arranged as to extend longitudinally of therail.

The side spurs 8 will be seen to extend in the same direction as thegrain of the wood of the tie, so that they will enter the latter with aminimum of injury thereto. The central spur 10, however, preferablextends transversely to the aim of the tie, but being located beneath te central portion of the plate, it follows that if any injury be done bit to the tie, it is localized, and at a conslderable distance from theside spurs.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:-

A tie plate havingdownwardly projecting side spurs upon its under sidelocated beneath that portion of the plate engagedby the'side edges ofthe base of the rail and extendingtransverse to the rail and part tralportion of the plate is unobstructed by Signed at Meadvi11e in thecounty of said. spurs 5 a centrally arranged down- Crawford and State ofPennsylvania this 10 wardly pro ecting spur extending 10ngitudi' 19thday of January A. D. 1912. nally of the rail and located beneath the YROBERT E DRAGOO '5 web thereof; and a side ridge located upon the upperside of and adjaeent one side of Witnesses: the plate and against whichthe edge of the R. B. WATSON, 1 baseof the rail abuts. Rom. W. Rooms,

